COMPUTERIZED CALENDAR METHODS--HEALTH AND ECON. MEASURES

描述(申请者摘要)：通过对生命过程进行准确建模 小组调查访谈可以通过提高质量来提高， 在逐浪采访和入院采访中的回顾报告，并通过应用 这些收益是对吸纳和核心波对波采访的补充 新生命周期变量的集合。事件历史日历(EHC) 问卷调查方法论在改进这方面有相当大的潜力 回顾报告的质量与标准化问题单的比较 (Q列表)方法。作为一项方法论研究，这个拟议的项目将测试 提供的社会健康和经济回顾报告的质量 EHC和Q-List两种方法。小组调查也将受益于收集 关于早期情况的信息。作为一项实质性研究，这项建议 该项目将收集关于宫内状况和非常 儿童早期和他们与成人慢性病的关系的模型， 对健康状况和社会经济地位的适当控制 在童年后期和成年期间经历的。具体地说，这个提案 将寻求1)修改两个计算机辅助面试EHC，其中一个带有 2年基准期，以及具有终生基准期的基准期 衡量关键的社会、健康和经济事件。2)衡量产品的质量 EHC和Q-List方法的回顾报告，终身参考 期间，并评估面对面模式的影响 具有短期参考周期EHC的电话模式。3)检查调查 EHC和Q-List访谈方法的成本影响通过以下措施 采访时间、采访者和应答者的负担。4)评估能力 收集到的有关医疗服务利用情况的两年回顾报告 按EHC方法提供年度医疗费用估算。5)测试 EHC和Q-List方法对现有面板数据的补充能力 在新的招聘面试期间的质量生命周期回顾报告 在核心访谈期间没有收集到的变量。寻求 加强对早年与晚年生活关系的因果推断 条件。6)在使用EHC访谈时从调查结果中得出启示 方法在未来的面板波动、补充的面板数据收集和摄取 小组调查。该项目设计分为三个阶段 与预测试、数据收集和分析活动相对应。这个 第一阶段将修改现有的两年和终身追溯CAT-EHC。 数据收集活动将包括为期两年的EHC的试点测试， 以及EHC和Q-List提供的寿命报告的验证测试 访谈方法。在过去的一年中，将应用分析技术 以评估任何EHC对数据质量的改进程度 完备性扩展了可以从面板中得出的生命历程推论 调查数据。

DESCRIPTION (Applicant's Abstract): Accurately modeling the life-course through panel survey interviewing can be enhanced by making gains in the quality, of retrospective reports in wave-to-wave and intake interviews, and by applying these gains to supplement intake and core wave-to-wave interviews with the collection of new lifetime variables. An Event History Calendar (EHC) questionnaire methodology has considerable potential toward improving the quality of retrospective reports in comparison to standardized question-list (Q-list) methods. As a methodological study, this proposed project will test the quality of social health, and economic retrospective reports provided by both EHC and Q-list methods. Panel surveys would also benefit by collecting information on very early conditions. As a substantive study, this proposed project will collect information on intrauterine conditions and those of very early childhood and model their association with adult chronic conditions, with appropriate controls for health conditions and socioeconomic status as experienced during later childhood and adulthood. Specifically, this proposal will seek to 1) Modify two computer assisted interviewing EHCS, one with a 2-year reference period, and one with a lifetime reference period that both measure key social, health, and economic events. 2) Measure the quality of retrospective reports from EHC and Q-list methods for a lifetime reference period and assess the impact of the face-to-face mode in comparison to telephone mode with a short-term reference period EHC. 3) Examine the survey cost implications of EHC and Q-list interviewing methods through measures of interviewing time and interviewer and respondent burden. 4) Assess the ability of 2-year retrospective reports on health care utilization that are collected by EHC methods to provide annual estimates of health care costs. 5) Test the ability of EHC and Q-list methods to supplement existing, panel data with high quality lifetime retrospective reports during intake interviews on new variables that have not been collected during core interviewing. Seek to strengthen causal inferences on the relationship between early and later life conditions. 6) Draw implications from the findings in using EHC interviewing methods in future panel waves, supplemental panel data collection, and intake panel surveys. The project is designed to incorporate three phases corresponding to pretesting, data collection, and analytic activities. The first phase will modify existing 2-year and lifetime retrospective CAT-EHCS. Data collection activities will consist of a pilot test of the two-year EHC, and a validation test of lifetime reports provided by EHC and Q-list interviewing methods. During the last year, analytic techniques will be applied to the data to assess the degree to which any EHC improvements to data quality and completeness extend the life-course inferences that can be drawn from panel survey data.